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Anonymous – Why just young elite athletes?Why not require a routine 12 lead ECG for all high school athletes and screen for WPW, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, prolonged QT, and Brugada's syndrome?Best regards,Tom

Awesome video.. I┤m at work in the ER and me and my colleagues are in awe. In Norway there has been quite a lot of incidents of cardiac arrest/sudden death especially with young soccer players. This was linked to use of NSAIDS/cyclooxygenase2-inhibitors. Some drugs have been taken off the market, and it┤s been a while since such indidents were in the news. Has the use of NSAIDS/COX2-inhibitors been linked to cardiac arrest in athletes/football/soccer-players been discussed/studied in the US?

Ben WallerWhy do we send so many people to a cardiac arrest?I am also a Battalion Chief in Tom's system. In addition to the AHA bullets he mentioned regarding high-quality CPR, our response is designed to provide fatigue-free CPR by sending enough people so that no one does CPR for more than 2 consecutive minutes. As for science, we believe strongly in it, but we also…
2016-12-08 11:29:19

Vince DiGiulioNo, doubling the paper speed will not reveal hidden P-wavesGreat tip! It's not much of an option prehospital, but one more thing I'll do when I'm in the ED and a patient has persistent tachycardia is look at the graphic trend of the patient's heart rate. Reentrant tachycardias will show a stable horizontal line (steady rate), often with a fairly abrupt onset/offset, while sinus…
2016-12-07 06:58:16

Vince DiGiulio59 Year Old Female: Intermittent Head Pain (Conclusion)Thanks! There's a couple of reasons why V7-9 might have been negative here: 1) Not all "inferoposterior" STEMI's show ST-elevation in V7-V9. Sometimes the ST-depression we see in V2 and V3 is reciprocal to the inferior STEMI and not really caused by posterior injury. 2) You'll notice that there is only subtle ST-depression in V3…
2016-12-07 06:55:27

Cardiac Care Show - Episode 1: Mechanical CPR - ECG Medical TrainingAdvanced Airway Management – Should Paramedics Be Intubating?[…] in the Resuscitation group on Facebook and the #FOAMed community┬áon┬áTwitter. Alongside tracheal intubation, response times, and fire-based EMS, this is one of the most controversial topics in prehospital […]
2016-12-04 18:26:57